ADAM G. GERTSACOV is an
internationally renowned theatre artist based in Yonkers,
NY. His original shows have played to standing-room only
audiences from Boston to Brazil and Providence to Prague.

As an actor, director, writer, teacher,
and clown, Adam has plied his trades all over the world,
including San Francisco, Buffalo, Minneapolis, New York,
Montreal, Toronto, Copenhagen, Prague, Sáo
Paolo,Brazil, and Santiago, Chile. He is the current Clown
Laureate of Greenbelt, Maryland.

In Providence (his hometown for 15
years), he was a lead clown with the Pan-Twilight Circus and
has worked with numerous theatres, including Trinity Rep,
Perishable Theatre, Alias Stage, Big Nazo Puppets, the Real
Fun Theatre, and at various fairs and festivals.

Adam currently tours shows all over the
world. Original shows and performances include Buffoon
Anonymous , Acme Miniature Circus, the Barbie
Oedipus, Meet P.T. Barnum Exploring With Henry Hudson and a dance piece entitled Clown's Reverie.

He has appeared as clown in residence (as
Doubledown the Gamblin' Clown) at Foxwoods Casino and
Resort, and in 1998 was invited to perform at the
International Circus Festival ANJO DE PICADEIRO (Angels of
the Circus Ring) in Brazil. His show was picked as Best of
the Fringe in Montreal and Minnesota, and was showcased as
part of the "Best of Spoleto" for the Piccolo Spoleto
Festival in Charleston SC.

Adam has received several awards for his
work, including a RI State Council on the Arts Grant for his
solo show the Acme Miniature Circus . That show was
named Pick of the Litter and #1 Sure Bet at Fringe Festivals
in Montreal and Minnesota, and has appeared to stellar
reviews and sold-out crowds wherever it has played. As
Professor A.G. Gertsacov, psycho-entomologist and
flea-trainer, Adam has been a guest on national and
international radio and television in the USA, Australia,
South America, and Japan.

Adam has collaborated with several world
class artists, including George Coates (in his award winning
production of Waiting for Godot) , mime artist Daniel
Stein (in an original piece titled Pushing the
Envelope), and with Czech Clown Ctibor Turba (in a
project for Czech television). Adam has also participated in
master classes and workshops with numerous leading clown and
physical theatre luminaries including Dario Fo (Nobel
Laureate), Bill Irwin (MacArthur Fellow), Carlo
Mazzone-Clemente, Ferrucio Soleri, Avner the Eccentric, Fred
Curchak, Tony Montanaro, Bolek Polivka, and RonLin Foreman,
to name a few.

As a teacher/educational artist, Adam has extensive
experience teaching for children and adults. He has taught
clowning and gag-writing in workshops and residencies at
over a dozen of Rhode Island's finest schools. He was on the
RI Arts-In Education Roster , and the Touring Roster for
Rhode Island and New England. In 1998 Adam was a guest
artist and master teacher in residence at the Instituto de
Chileno Norteamericano in Santiago, Chile.

Adam is a graduate of the Ringling Bros.
Clown College, The Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre, the
Trinity Rep Conservatory, the University of Pennsylvania
(BA), Rhode Island College (MA), the Bryant College
Entrepreneurship program, and the Boston School for
Bartending, making him the most educated clown in America
(barring certain elected officials!)

Adam is the artistic director, boss
clown, chief bottle washer, and Big Cheese of the Acme Clown
Company. He has had book reviews published in the
Millennium Whole Earth Catalog and the Whole Earth
Review, and is the author of the best-selling children's
book Rhode
Island A to Z. He has been
the co-host of the Theatre conference on THE WELL, an online
community, since 1992.